I Wish There Was Something That I Could Quit

Paperback, 103 pages

English language

Published April 30, 2006 by Last Gasp.

ISBN:
978-0-86719-650-4
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OCLC Number:
64555523

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2 stars (1 review)

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2 stars

Somewhat scattershot in terms of story/writing quality. Aaron's at his best writing non-fiction: personal essays, elaborate interviews, the history of his neighborhood, etc. His fiction staggers and stalls out, featuring characters who seem to represent one part of his personality each and, as such, never seem able to stand on their own. They're underdeveloped not because their thought processes or actions are one-dimensional, but because they lack context. Little is mentioned about the personal history of any of the four main characters, and the fact that they form a love quadralateral, but live in close enough proximity to see each other walking by their respective windows seems somewhat unbelievable. Throw in some token references to punk shows, squatting, crust hygeine, flyers, vandalism, radical politics, and record stores, and you've got a nebulous mass of a novella that would probably be all but inaccessible for anyone not in some subcultural "scene" …

Subjects

  • General & Literary Fiction
  • Humorous
  • Fiction
  • Fiction - General
  • Literary
  • General
  • Counterculture
  • Locomotives
  • Vandalism